Catherines Delight

England moves on! In a limited overs game (due to D/L) Engalnd bested New Zealand and moves on. New Zealand is not totally out of it but it depends on the game today which currently looks like Australia is struggling a bit to catch Sri Lanka. Anyway, back to England. Michael actually saw some of the game while I prepared our vegan lunch - which was quite tasty by the way. Engalnd batted first and their opener Cook got a nice total of 64. No other real batting standouts and the finished their overs with 169 to chase. As for the bowling, hats off to McCleneghan (3 wickets) and Mills (4 wickets) pretty impressive with limited overs. When New Zealand came on to chase they did ok (Williamson with 67) but dropped to many of their early order and just couldn't make it. They fell 10 short. 3 wickets to Anderson and 2 a piece to Broad and Bopara.

There was almost no movement in our competition except Michael who overtook Bob and Moira and Katy S who overtook Henry and I. Whose in for a late surge? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?

As I said Sri Lanka is currently battling Australia for the last spot in the semis and then we have a rest day tomorrow. The first semi on Wednesday will be South Africa vs. ? (probably England) and semi 2 will be on Thursday with India battling ?

Too close for comfort

Fruit, fruit, the magical fruit.........

Sorry about the lack of a blog this last day, I have been up to my eyeballs in fruit. Picking, jamming, pieing, and eating. All that fruit also leads to some other time consuming issues. Anyway, with all this fruit around I barely had time to hit a 4 year olds birthday and plan a vegan lunch. So what has been going on? Well, a whole lot of rain. Both of the last games have been effected by the rain and ol duckworth lewis had to rear his ugly head. Don't know what/who duckworth lewis is? Neither do I but it has something to do with rain and how you shorten and decide on a winner in the game of cricket. So, today India beat Pakistan by 8 wickets with 17 balls remaining in a pretty boring game. Not much of note there. Pakistan was out of it anyway. India moves on. and the day before well it was a nail bitter. I was just rereading the commentary so I could set you all up for the drama but honestly I am just confused. Seems the target to win changes every over when you are under the spell of ol duckworth. But It all came down to one wicket and the Pollard was the poor sucker who dropped it. So, South Africa and the West Indies tied. But South Africa has a better net run rate than the West Indies so they will be moving on.

Tomorrow England and New Zealand play. A win for either one will ensure they move on, a loss and you have to look at what happens with Australia and net run rates and all kinds of weird things. So lets hope they play and someone wins.

Our tourney is all about jockey for position these days. Seems like at this point you are either on the top, in the middle, or on the bottom with not much change. However, do not give up hope, the end is near and this is when your trade management may come into play. So, battle on folks, battle on.

Not much change, but some mighty tight battles for position

Warner Did It

Sorry about that last blog, I was rained out. Tonight we can blame everything on Australia's Warner. Warner did it, and it may or may not have involved "fancy dress" ("costumes" for those of you who speak American) but it definately involved Root so I say Warner was England's demise, or Sangakarra. But anyway, England lost to Sri Lanka and I for one was shocked. When I saw that England had posted an impressive 293 I thought Sri Lanka was doomed. But then they went out to bat and they got a few runs, and a few more, and few more, and suddenly Sangakarra has 134 and Sri Lanka win by 7 wickets with 17 balls remaining. Since Australia and New Zealand both got a no result from yesterdays rain-out it sets up an interesting situation in group A. No one in that group is guaranteed a pass to the next round and all 4 of them need to score a win in their next matches. In group B, India is moving on, Pakistan is out so Saturdays game will be for pride. But the match tomorrow between South Africa and the West Indies will determine who else goes through.

As for us, BOB SURGED! He wanted to make sure I put that in the blog. Bob surged! He loves him some Sri Lankans. Anna and Catherine seems to be in their own competition at the top. Catherine had a bit of surge herself today and is within 100 points of Anna. Three more of us are battling for 3rd - Bob (who surged), Missy (who was surged upon) and James (who has a crick in his neck from looking over his shoulder at his parents. And NO James don't think because you're the favorite they won't take you out in a heart beat). There is also a battle happening for the Sweaty Teddy. Jolie and Hilary have been jocking for the coveted last place, which rookie will come out on top? The rest of us? well, we are there in the middle somewhere..............